Key skills
Go programmingStorage systems integrationDistributed storageScale-out storageNAS storageObject storageDell PowerScaleVAST storage platformStorage fundamentalsFile storage modelBlock storage modelObject storage modelThroughput optimizationLatency optimizationCaching techniquesConsistency modelsFailure mode analysisKubernetes storageCSIPersistent volumesStorage classesInfrastructure-as-codeTerraformOpenTofuGitOpsArgoCDFluxBare-metal provisioningHybrid provisioningCluster APIPKITLSPython programmingRust programmingMirantis K0rdent stackGPU/AI storage developmentGPUDirect StorageAir-gapped environment securityPythonGoRustAIMachine LearningKubernetesCachingCommunication
About this role
Mirantis is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. The Senior Software Engineer (Storage) will design and build software for high-performance storage systems, integrating them with Kubernetes-based workloads and ensuring operational efficiency.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build control-plane services, drivers (e.g., CSI), and tooling that provision, configure, and operate storage for Kubernetes-based AI/compute workloads
- Integrate high-performance storage platforms — Dell PowerScale, VAST, and comparable systems — into automated, declarative provisioning workflows
- Build data-path, telemetry, and observability tooling to diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and scaling issues
- Write production-quality software — primarily in Go — with strong testing, code review, and operational rigor
- Deliver infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/OpenTofu) and GitOps-driven pipelines (ArgoCD or Flux) for storage configuration and lifecycle
- Support bare-metal and hybrid provisioning where storage intersects host and cluster bring-up
- Deliver storage integration for k0s-based Kubernetes via Cluster API (CAPI) and K0rdent management/child cluster topologies
- Architect storage software for fully disconnected (air-gapped) environments, including local artifact/mirror connectivity (Harbor) and PKI/TLS considerations
Requirements:
- 5+ years of software development, including production systems, with Go as a primary language
- 5+ years building or integrating storage systems (distributed, scale-out, NAS, or object) at scale
- Hands-on experience with high-performance storage platforms such as Dell PowerScale, VAST, or comparable technologies
- Solid understanding of storage fundamentals: file/block/object models, throughput and latency behavior, caching, consistency, and failure modes
- Experience with Kubernetes storage (CSI, persistent volumes, storage classes) and infrastructure-as-code
- Strong written and verbal communication with technical audiences
- Proficiency in Python and/or Rust in addition to Go
- Experience with the Mirantis K0rdent stack (K0rdent Enterprise, K0rdent AI, k0s, MKE) and Cluster API
- Experience developing storage for GPU/AI workloads (high-throughput data pipelines, GPUDirect Storage)
- Proven experience in sovereign or high-security air-gapped environments